New stamp with Hawai’i flag is released

On Tuesday, the Postal Service issued a Hawai’i flag stamp within the three-year, multistamp series Flags of our Nation. The stamps include the flag and “a snapshot view” of the area represented by the flag. The Hawai’i stamp shows an outline of what I think is Maui and of Oahu’s Diamond Head, as well as local flora.
Here in Honolulu, officials dedicated the stamp midday Tuesday at the Honolulu airport post office, where you could get your new stamps hand-canceled with a special commemorative first-day-of-sale postmark. When I first read about the ceremony, I thought I would go. Good thing I didn’t – I had the wrong post office. I would have headed downtown and would have been really mad at myself for misreading the news article and wasting time and gas.